re: #349 allegro

Well there it is. Women should not have the right to bodily autonomy and full agency according to you.

I do not know how you arrived at that conclusion.
I neither said, nor considered any such thing.

Perhaps you misunderstood what I said, so here is a clarification:

What I believe is that the fetus becomes a human being at some point before the time which is legally defined now, as the moment of birth.
Before that time of becoming human, the fetus is merely a mass of cells, a vehicle in preparation, or assembly if you will.
I don’t think that it matters one whit if that fetus is aborted prior to that time of becoming human.
I believe that there is likely to be a problem if the fetus has reached the point of being a human and is aborted- again, no absolutes, as circumstance is a deck of cards.
I think if society were to know when the time of becoming human were to occur, for each individual, which we obviously don’t, then it would by foolish for society to persist in allowing the willful end of that life for no good reason.
We do not know when that time of becoming human occurs.

We do know that it occurs before the time which our laws allow an abortion to be performed, as the laws presently exist.
We know this because viable infants are delivered all the time which have not reached full term.
They are human beings.

Since the law allows this ending of life only under circumstance of risk to mother, it is within the woman’s legal right to choose to abort if she wishes, during the time of human viability.
Whether it is ultimately ‘right’ for the woman to make that choice isn’t up to me to decide, or the state, as our laws exist now.

I am convinced that if there is a price to be paid for any thought or act which we, as individuals undertake, then we shall individually pay that price.
Arguments about this or that ‘right’ will not spare us from the consequences of our own thought and action.
As others have said, this is free will.

All of this is my view and you are free to disagree.